| Unidad Editorial, S.A. | |
| Type: | Spanish; Castilian: [[S.A. (corporation)|Sociedad anónima]] |
| Foundation: | 2007 |
| Location City: | Madrid |
| Location Country: | Spain |
| Location: | Avenida de San Luis 25 |
| Key People: | Jorge de Esteban |
| Industry: | Media |
| Owner: | RCS MediaGroup (96.48 %) |
Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers, and . It is primarily owned by the Italian holding RCS MediaGroup.
Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa (controlled by Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup) and .[1] [2]
Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers Marca, and the magazines Actualidad Económica and Telva. Unedisa was the publisher of, founded in 1989 by Pedro J. Ramírez. Back in 2000, Veo Televisión (owned by Unedisa) had been also conceded one of the two new DTT licenses granted by People's Party government.[3]
Following the leaving of Pedro J. Ramírez from in 2014, RCS MediaGroup asserted a tighter control over Unidad Editorial. In 2016, RCS MediaGroup was acquired in a takeover by Urbano Cairo, who had support from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.
In 2006, the share of the newspapers controlled by the founding companies was 10% in the Spanish press market.[4]
Unidad Editorial is the owner of . Through Veo TV, Unidad Editorial has one of the DTT licenses in Spain, leased to third parties.
Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup owns 96.48% of Unidad Editorial.